November 19, 2008



  • Someone want to tell me how this is funny?

    It isn't the fact it's about bulimia. I kind of don't get how being from the first world (and apparently selfish) equates to a bulimic. Or how that apparently makes her stupid. Are these new stereotypes that have formed recently? That's the best you could do?

    The biggest problem is it reads like criticism and that horrid disconnection of what it's saying and reality just sours the whole thing. I have no problem with being offensive. Watch Mad T. V.s version of High School Musical. It wasn't entirely funny, in my opinion, but it certainly didn't offend me. They didn't make random and unrelated statements.

    I could go into a rant, I suppose, but there's a reason I check my friend requests and don't just press Accept. You're all intelligent.

Comments (4)

  • I agree with oyu, i do not find this funny at all. the link is that in todays culture and society, it all about looks, and less about personality. the guy wont even talk to you unless your cute, unless hes already seen your personality. however, teh competition in todays society for the "perfect shape" have left women/girls thinking that we cant get a guy or be happy in life with out it, and our culture today seems to keep hammering that into our heads. we dont look at ads and say, wow, shes got a great personality, we say, damn shes hot. its all about sex appeal and striving to make yourself more wanted by all. its sick, its sad, and its our society, so when she says shes from the first world and selfish, she means a culture that wont accept her for being who she is, someone who cares about the third world and those who are less fortunate. what i find incredibly disturbing in this though is that she thinks she is a carbon copy of teh green shoe gal.

  • Why did you steal my pictures without my permission? Please remove it from your site.You obviously misunderstood the entire idea. But to address the part you brought up: Being from the first world doesn't equate to being bulimic, but it is almost always the case in reverse. Please show me a third-worlder who is both a glutton and a purger. My other point was that women with eating disorders today often demand as much sympathy from people as those who have horrible, physiological illnesses (such as cancer) that are beyond their control. Eating disorders are not on the same level as cancer, so to equate it is laughable. Bulimics choose their behavior. A woman who is throwing up from chemotherapy doesn't.

  • @methodElevated -  I can't seem to get to your site to respond, so I'll do it here. Did you create the picture? If so, I'm incredibly sorry (I didn't know) and I shall remove it immediately. If not and I find it online, may I keep it up, since it would be part of the public sphere and perfectly applicaple for me to post? I didn't make any connection back to your site, so no one would have assumed it came from there to begin with.I didn't think that being from the first world made you bulimic. However, once you remove the most bottom needs of any society, other problems emerge. My mother was always fond of saying that in Haiti they never deal with Post-pregnancy depression, only in America it seems. Even general depression, you don't hear about too often. When you remove the necesity to find food, social impressions impede upon the person.My point (though I assumed the readers would know) is that bulimia is not a self-made choice. It's like saying that someone with a phobia is making an irrational choice of their own or that a victim of abuse should know better than to behave that way. Bulimia is a mental disorder. It becomes an addiction and often the way they view it is skewed from a rational perspective. I do hope you wouldn't say that an alcoholic chooses to drink themselves everyday out of total free choice on their part. Bulimia is not caused by the individual's complete choice generally, but by the influence of pressure around him/her.

  • I agree with you thirst2

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